Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere (2024)

Chances are, a death metal album named Absolute Elsewhere won't be a basic death metal album. And a Blood Incantation album has zero chance to be a basic album. Their previous (and excellent) two tracks release was a good indication of what to expect : the progressive/technical and with a Morbid Angel feel death metal of their first two albums, but with also elements from their synth/ambient in a Tangerine Dream/Popol Vuh vein album, to push their death metal further into strange territories, able to go from Morbid Angel to Pink Floyd in the same song. And as usual with Blood Incantation, it sounds at the same time very natural and very special. Certainly one of the most memorable album this year and highly recommended! 

The BC page.

 

My 7 favourites death metal albums in 2019

Here are my seven favourites death metal albums for 2019.
Follow the link to read the review (and there you'll find a Bandcamp link nearly every time).
I give it in alphabetical order.

Altarage - The Approaching Roar

Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race

Deiphago - I, The Devil

Desecravity - Anathema

Hideous Divinity - Simulacrum

Pissgrave - Posthumous Humiliation

Unaussprechlichen kulten - Teufelsbücher

 

Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race (2019)

Like with Blood Incantation first album, it took me some time to get how good is Hidden History of the Human Race. You don't catch all the subtleties at first listen. It's rooted in old school death metal, reminding Morbid Angel at its most cosmic, but also it's different, more technical but even more more progressive. And whether they do the brutal stuff or the more "weird spacey" parts, they excel. Highly recommended, this one will naturally sit in good place among my soon to come "best death metal of 2019" list.

The Bandcamp page.